Promises of and eternal future
Eternal life
1 John
2:25 – ‘And this is the promise that He has promised us – eternal
life.’
Romans
6:22,23 – ‘But now having been set free from sin, and having become
slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end,
everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God
is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
John 10:27,28 – ‘My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.’
1 John
5:11,13 – ‘And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal
life, and this life is in His Son. These things I have written to
you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know
that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in
the name of the Son of God.’
John 3:16 – ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.’
John 5:24 – ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgement, but has passed from death to life.’
Titus 1:2
– ‘…in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised
before time began.’
A home with God
John 14:2-4 – ‘In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.’
Psalm
23:6 – ‘Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, all the days of
my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.’
Revelation 21:1,2 – ‘Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no
more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband.’
2 Corinthians 5:1-4 – ‘For we
know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a
building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with
our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed,
we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan,
being burdened, not because we want to b unclothed, but further
clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.’
Hebrews
11:9,10,16 – ‘By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a
foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs
with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has
foundations, whose builder and maker is God. But now they desire a
better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to
be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.’
2 Peter
3:13 – ‘Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.’